title: Adenylate cyclase system of differentiating erythroid cells.
abstract: The review provides a survey of current knowledge about the changes in hormone-sensitive adenylate cyclase complex of erythroid cells. The basal enzyme activity decreases continuously during differentiation and maturation. Guanine nucleotides (GTP and GMP-P (NH)P) increase the adenylate cyclase activity of both early and late rabbit bone marrow erythroblasts. The stimulating effect of the beta 2-adrenergic drugs such as L-isoprenaline is limited to the immature cells. L-noradrenaline, a beta 1-agonist is inactive. The lack of response of non-dividing rabbit erythroblasts to beta-adrenergic stimuli is not due to loss of beta-receptors during differentiation, but to a decrease in the effectiveness of the coupling between the components of the system: receptor-guanine nucleotide regulatory protein-catalytic subunit. Prostaglandins E1 and E2 consistently enhance adenylate cyclase activity of erythroblasts on different stages of development. Erythropoietin (0.2 U/ml) causes a transient increase in the activity of adenylate cyclase, which is maximal by 20 min incubation of the cells in the presence of the hormone and disappears within 4 hours. The magnitude of the response to erythropoietin depends on the stage of erythroid cell development and is inverse related to the extent of previous hormonal stimulation of the cell.
authors.affiliation: Central Laboratory of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Setchenska
mesh_terms: D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology*; D004920:Erythropoiesis; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases